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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082535
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations
Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyse an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114368
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Myopic or Farsighted? An Experiment on Network Formation
Kirchsteiger, Georg; Mantovani, Marco; Mauleon, Ana; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854524
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Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136539
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The Role of Equality and Efficiency in Social Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
are more egalitarian than men. However, perhaps surprisingly, the dominance of equality over efficiency is unrelated to … claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more … field of study (economics) and learned in the first semester that efficiency is desirable. We show that for non …
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
Cipriani, Marco; Giuliano, Paola; Jeanne, Olivier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791784
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On Public Opinion Polls and Voters' Turnout
Klor, Esteban F; Winter, Eyal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper studies the effects that the revelation of information on the electorate's preferences has on voters' turnout decisions. The experimental data show that closeness in the division of preferences induces a significant increase in turnout. Moreover, for closely divided electorates (and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661831